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Educating for Global Competence: The Value of

Multilingualism

Bilingual Coordinators Network

December 10, 2013

Yee Wan, Ed.D.Multilingual Education Services

Topics

1. Background of the Project2. Rationale for the Toolkit3. Global Competence4. Components of the Toolkit5. Application Ideas

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BackgroundThe County Board has adopted a three-year goal to provide equitable education

and reduce all students’ access discrepancies to high quality education

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Why the Toolkit…?

• Promotes and supports equitable access to high quality education for all students

• Promotes the value of proficiency in multiple languages as an asset for developing global competence


Benefits of Second Language Learning


Native English Speakers

Learn a second or third language

Strengthen academic literacy in English

Non-native English Speakers

Maintain and continue developing their primary language

Learn English or a third language

Project Contributors

SCCOE Toolkit Workgroup MembersCountywide Advisory Group Members

Office of the SuperintendentVideo Production

Graphic Design and LayoutWeb Master


Products

1. Publication, Educating for Global Competence: The Value of World Languages

2. Presentation PowerPoints for three target groups

3. Video: Shaping Our Global Future

4. A webpage for posting products 1-3


21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems


What is global competence?

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The capacity and dispositions to understand and act on issues of global

significance.

Educating for Global Competence: The Value of Multilingualism

Global Competencie

s

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Investigate the World

Communicate Ideas


Recognize Perspectives

Role of Language in Global Competence


Voices from Stakeholders

Shaping Our Global Future:The Value of Multilingualism


Video debrief…


If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

-Nelson Mandela


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Toolkit Components

A complete list of resources is available

at:

http://

mes.sccoe.org/bwlct/hom

e/Pages/default.aspx


http://mes.sccoe.org/bwlct/home/Pages/default.aspx



Review the Toolkit publication and other online products.

How might you utilize this Toolkit in supporting students to become

bilingual/multilingual?

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Reflection…


Questions


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